中  華  心  理  學  刊
民93，46卷，4期，267-282

Shih-Tseng Tina Huang（Department of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University）

Abstract

The effect of two types of emotion regulation, suppression and reappraisal, on dyadic interactions was investigated in the present study. Seventy-two female participants were paired and randomly assigned to either of the two emotion-regulation conditions or to a control condition. Participants in each dyad viewed an emotion-arousing film and then engaged in a conversation to discuss topics related to the target film. Results indicated, for the self-reported measures, regulators in the suppression condition reported a lower self-regard and a lower satisfaction with the conversation than both the regulators in the reappraisal and the participants in the control condition. For nonverbal behavioral measures, self-touching and bodily movements were significantly less frequent in the suppression condition than those in the control condition. For measures of blood pressure, the elevations of the mean and diastolic blood pressures for the non-regulators in the suppression condition were greater than for the non-regulators in the reappraisal condition. And, the elevation of the systolic blood pressure for the regulators was higher than those for the non-regulators. Taken together, these results suggest that suppressing emotional experience not only had negative impact on those who did the suppression, but also on their partners who interacted with them. In contrast, participants who presumably were experiencing negative emotions could benefit from partners who would offer alternative perspective on the emotion-inducing event. Implications for emotion regulation on interpersonal interactions are discussed.

Keywords：dyadic interaction, emotion regulation, nonverbal measure, blood pressure measure